Remove one addi, and instead use the offset part of jalr.
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216091343.23260-6-bjorn.topel@gmail.com

This commit add support for far (offset > 21b) jumps and exits.
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Luke Nelson <lukenels@cs.washington.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216091343.23260-5-bjorn.topel@gmail.com

Start use the emit_branch() function in the tail call emitter in order
to support far branching.
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216091343.23260-4-bjorn.topel@gmail.com

This commit adds branch relaxation to the BPF JIT, and with that
support for far (offset greater than 12b) branching.

The branch relaxation requires more than two passes to converge. For
most programs it is three passes, but for larger programs it can be
more.
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Luke Nelson <lukenels@cs.washington.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216091343.23260-3-bjorn.topel@gmail.com

The BPF JIT incorrectly clobbered the a0 register, and did not flag
usage of s5 register when BPF stack was being used.

Fixes: 2353ecc6 ("bpf, riscv: add BPF JIT for RV64G")
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216091343.23260-2-bjorn.topel@gmail.com

Andrii Nakryiko says:

====================
Based on latest feedback and discussions, this patch set implements the
following changes:

- Kconfig-provided externs have to be in .kconfig section, for which
  bpf_helpers.h provides convenient __kconfig macro (Daniel);
- instead of allowing to override Kconfig file path, switch this to ability to
  extend and override system Kconfig with user-provided custom values (Alexei);
- BTF is required when externs are used.
====================
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

BTF is required to get type information about extern variables.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191219002837.3074619-4-andriin@fb.com

Instead of all or nothing approach of overriding Kconfig file location, allow
to extend it with extra values and override chosen subset of values though
optional user-provided extra config, passed as a string through open options'
.kconfig option. If same config key is present in both user-supplied config
and Kconfig, user-supplied one wins. This allows applications to more easily
test various conditions despite host kernel's real configuration. If all of
BPF object's __kconfig externs are satisfied from user-supplied config, system
Kconfig won't be read at all.

Simplify selftests by not needing to create temporary Kconfig files.
Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191219002837.3074619-3-andriin@fb.com

Move Kconfig-provided externs into custom .kconfig section. Add __kconfig into
bpf_helpers.h for user convenience. Update selftests accordingly.
Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191219002837.3074619-2-andriin@fb.com

There are cases in which BPF resource (program, map, etc) has to outlive
userspace program that "installed" it in the system in the first place.
When BPF program is attached, libbpf returns bpf_link object, which
is supposed to be destroyed after no longer necessary through
bpf_link__destroy() API. Currently, bpf_link destruction causes both automatic
detachment and frees up any resources allocated to for bpf_link in-memory
representation. This is inconvenient for the case described above because of
coupling of detachment and resource freeing.

This patch introduces bpf_link__disconnect() API call, which marks bpf_link as
disconnected from its underlying BPF resouces. This means that when bpf_link
is destroyed later, all its memory resources will be freed, but BPF resource
itself won't be detached.

This design allows to follow strict and resource-leak-free design by default,
while giving easy and straightforward way for user code to opt for keeping BPF
resource attached beyond lifetime of a bpf_link. For some BPF programs (i.e.,
FS-based tracepoints, kprobes, raw tracepoint, etc), user has to make sure to
pin BPF program to prevent kernel to automatically detach it on process exit.
This should typically be achived by pinning BPF program (or map in some cases)
in BPF FS.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218225039.2668205-1-andriin@fb.com

allow to pass skb's mark field into bpf_prog_test_run ctx
for BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS prog type. that would allow
to test bpf programs which are doing decision based on this
field
Signed-off-by: Nikita V. Shirokov <tehnerd@tehnerd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

Work-around what appears to be a bug in rst2man convertion tool, used to
create man pages out of reStructureText-formatted documents. If text line
starts with dot, rst2man will put it in resulting man file verbatim. This
seems to cause man tool to interpret it as a directive/command (e.g., `.bs`), and
subsequently not render entire line because it's unrecognized one.

Enclose '.xxx' words in extra formatting to work around.

Fixes: cb21ac58 ("bpftool: Add gen subcommand manpage")
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218221707.2552199-1-andriin@fb.com

Change format string referring to just single argument out of two available.
Some versions of libc can reject such format string.
Reported-by: Nikita Shirokov <tehnerd@tehnerd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218214314.2403729-1-andriin@fb.com

Andrii Nakryiko says:

====================
Simplify skeleton usage by embedding source BPF object file inside skeleton
itself. This allows to keep skeleton and object file in sync at all times with
no chance of confusion.

Also, add bpftool-gen.rst manpage, explaining concepts and ideas behind
skeleton. In examples section it also includes a complete small BPF
application utilizing skeleton, as a demonstration of API.

Patch #2 also removes BPF_EMBED_OBJ, as there is currently no use of it.

v2->v3:
- (void) in no-args function (Alexei);
- bpftool-gen.rst code block formatting fix (Alexei);
- simplified xxx__create_skeleton to fill in obj and return error code;

v1->v2:
- remove whitespace from empty lines in code blocks (Yonghong).
====================
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

Add bpftool-gen.rst describing skeleton on the high level. Also include
a small, but complete, example BPF app (BPF side, userspace side, generated
skeleton) in example section to demonstrate skeleton API and its usage.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218052552.2915188-4-andriin@fb.com

Drop BPF_EMBED_OBJ and struct bpf_embed_data now that skeleton automatically
embeds contents of its source object file. While BPF_EMBED_OBJ is useful
independently of skeleton, we are currently don't have any use cases utilizing
it, so let's remove them until/if we need it.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218052552.2915188-3-andriin@fb.com

Embed contents of BPF object file used for BPF skeleton generation inside
skeleton itself. This allows to keep BPF object file and its skeleton in sync
at all times, and simpifies skeleton instantiation.

Also switch existing selftests to not require BPF_EMBED_OBJ anymore.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218052552.2915188-2-andriin@fb.com

Libbpf is trying to recognize BPF program type based on its section name
during bpf_object__open() phase. This is not strictly enforced and user code
has ability to specify/override correct BPF program type after open.  But if
BPF program is using custom section name, libbpf will still emit warnings,
which can be quite annoying to users. This patch reduces log level of
information messages emitted by libbpf if section name is not canonical. User
can still get a list of all supported section names as debug-level message.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191217234228.1739308-1-andriin@fb.com

This fixes two issues with the newly introduced libbpf_common.h file:

- The header failed to include <string.h> for the definition of memset()
- The new file was not included in the install_headers rule in the Makefile

Both of these issues cause breakage when installing libbpf with 'make
install' and trying to use it in applications.

Fixes: 544402d4 ("libbpf: Extract common user-facing helpers")
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191217112810.768078-1-toke@redhat.com

Similarly to bpftool/libbpf output, make selftests/bpf output succinct
per-item output line. Output is roughly as follows:

$ make
...
  CLANG-LLC [test_maps] pyperf600.o
  CLANG-LLC [test_maps] strobemeta.o
  CLANG-LLC [test_maps] pyperf100.o
  EXTRA-OBJ [test_progs] cgroup_helpers.o
  EXTRA-OBJ [test_progs] trace_helpers.o
     BINARY test_align
     BINARY test_verifier_log
   GEN-SKEL [test_progs] fexit_bpf2bpf.skel.h
   GEN-SKEL [test_progs] test_global_data.skel.h
   GEN-SKEL [test_progs] sendmsg6_prog.skel.h
...

To see the actual command invocation, verbose mode can be turned on with V=1
argument:

$ make V=1

... very verbose output ...
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191217061425.2346359-1-andriin@fb.com

List zlib as another dependency of libbpf in pkg-config template.
Verified it is correctly resolved to proper -lz flag:

$ make DESTDIR=/tmp/libbpf-install install
$ pkg-config --libs /tmp/libbpf-install/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig/libbpf.pc
-L/usr/local/lib64 -lbpf
$ pkg-config --libs --static /tmp/libbpf-install/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig/libbpf.pc
-L/usr/local/lib64 -lbpf -lelf -lz

Fixes: 166750bc ("libbpf: Support libbpf-provided extern variables")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216183830.3972964-1-andriin@fb.com

Probably the single most common error newcomers to XDP are stumped by is
the 'permission denied' error they get when trying to load their program
and 'ulimit -l' is set too low. For examples, see [0], [1].

Since the error code is UAPI, we can't change that. Instead, this patch
adds a few heuristics in libbpf and outputs an additional hint if they are
met: If an EPERM is returned on map create or program load, and geteuid()
shows we are root, and the current RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is not infinity, we
output a hint about raising 'ulimit -l' as an additional log line.

[0] https://marc.info/?l=xdp-newbies&m=157043612505624&w=2
[1] https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tutorial/issues/86Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216181204.724953-1-toke@redhat.com

When attaching XDP programs, userspace can set flags to request the attach
mode (generic/SKB mode, driver mode or hw offloaded mode). If no such flags
are requested, the kernel will attempt to attach in driver mode, and then
silently fall back to SKB mode if this fails.

The silent fallback is a major source of user confusion, as users will try
to load a program on a device without XDP support, and instead of an error
they will get the silent fallback behaviour, not notice, and then wonder
why performance is not what they were expecting.

In an attempt to combat this, let's switch all the samples to default to
explicitly requesting driver-mode attach. As part of this, ensure that all
the userspace utilities have a switch to enable SKB mode. For those that
have a switch to request driver mode, keep it but turn it into a no-op.
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216110742.364456-1-toke@redhat.com

It seems Clang can in some cases turn on stack protection by default, which
doesn't work with BPF. This was reported once before[0], but it seems the
flag to explicitly turn off the stack protector wasn't added to the
Makefile, so do that now.

The symptom of this is compile errors like the following:

error: <unknown>:0:0: in function bpf_prog1 i32 (%struct.__sk_buff*): A call to built-in function '__stack_chk_fail' is not supported.

[0] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg556400.htmlSigned-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216103819.359535-1-toke@redhat.com

Since libbpf now links against zlib, this needs to be included in the
linker invocation for the userspace programs in samples/bpf that link
statically against libbpf.

Fixes: 166750bc ("libbpf: Support libbpf-provided extern variables")
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216102405.353834-1-toke@redhat.com

Add xdp_redirect and per_socket_stats_example in build targets.
They got removed from build targets in Makefile reorganization.

Fixes: 1d97c6c2 ("samples/bpf: Base target programs rules on Makefile.target")
Signed-off-by: Prashant Bhole <prashantbhole.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216071619.25479-1-prashantbhole.linux@gmail.com

The ident variable has already been declared at the top of the function
and doesn't need to be re-declared.

Fixes: 985ead41 ("bpftool: Add skeleton codegen command")
Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@orange.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216112733.GA28366@Omicron

In btf__align_of() variable name 't' is shadowed by inner block
declaration of another variable with same name. Patch renames
variables in order to fix it.

  CC       sharedobjs/btf.o
btf.c: In function ‘btf__align_of’:
btf.c:303:21: error: declaration of ‘t’ shadows a previous local [-Werror=shadow]
  303 |   int i, align = 1, t;
      |                     ^
btf.c:283:25: note: shadowed declaration is here
  283 |  const struct btf_type *t = btf__type_by_id(btf, id);
      |

Fixes: 3d208f4c ("libbpf: Expose btf__align_of() API")
Signed-off-by: Prashant Bhole <prashantbhole.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Tested-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216082738.28421-1-prashantbhole.linux@gmail.com

Andrii Nakryiko says:

====================
Add support for flexible array accesses in a relocatable manner in BPF CO-RE.
It's a typical pattern in C, and kernel in particular, to provide
a fixed-length struct with zero-sized or dimensionless array at the end. In
such cases variable-sized array contents follows immediately after the end of
a struct. This patch set adds support for such access pattern by allowing
accesses to such arrays.

Patch #1 adds libbpf support. Patch #2 adds few test cases for validation.
====================
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

Add few tests validation CO-RE relocation handling of flexible array accesses.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191215070844.1014385-3-andriin@fb.com

Some data stuctures in kernel are defined with either zero-sized array or
flexible (dimensionless) array at the end of a struct. Actual data of such
array follows in memory immediately after the end of that struct, forming its
variable-sized "body" of elements. Support such access pattern in CO-RE
relocation handling.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191215070844.1014385-2-andriin@fb.com

Andrii Nakryiko says:

====================
It's often important for BPF program to know kernel version or some specific
config values (e.g., CONFIG_HZ to convert jiffies to seconds) and change or
adjust program logic based on their values. As of today, any such need has to
be resolved by recompiling BPF program for specific kernel and kernel
configuration. In practice this is usually achieved by using BCC and its
embedded LLVM/Clang. With such set up #ifdef CONFIG_XXX and similar
compile-time constructs allow to deal with kernel varieties.

With CO-RE (Compile Once – Run Everywhere) approach, this is not an option,
unfortunately. All such logic variations have to be done as a normal
C language constructs (i.e., if/else, variables, etc), not a preprocessor
directives. This patch series add support for such advanced scenarios through
C extern variables. These extern variables will be recognized by libbpf and
supplied through extra .extern internal map, similarly to global data. This
.extern map is read-only, which allows BPF verifier to track its content
precisely as constants. That gives an opportunity to have pre-compiled BPF
program, which can potentially use BPF functionality (e.g., BPF helpers) or
kernel features (types, fields, etc), that are available only on a subset of
targeted kernels, while effectively eleminating (through verifier's dead code
detection) such unsupported functionality for other kernels (typically, older
versions). Patch #3 explicitly tests a scenario of using unsupported BPF
helper, to validate the approach.

This patch set heavily relies on BTF type information emitted by compiler for
each extern variable declaration. Based on specific types, libbpf does strict
checks of config data values correctness. See patch #1 for details.

Outline of the patch set:
- patch #1 does a small clean up of internal map names contants;
- patch #2 adds all of the libbpf internal machinery for externs support,
  including setting up BTF information for .extern data section;
- patch #3 adds support for .extern into BPF skeleton;
- patch #4 adds externs selftests, as well as enhances test_skeleton.c test to
  validate mmap()-ed .extern datasection functionality.

v3->v4:
- clean up copyrights and rebase onto latest skeleton patches (Alexei);

v2->v3:
- truncate too long strings (Alexei);
- clean ups, adding comments (Alexei);

v1->v2:
- use BTF type information for externs (Alexei);
- add strings support;
- add BPF skeleton support for .extern.
====================
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

Add a set of tests validating libbpf-provided extern variables. One crucial
feature that's tested is dead code elimination together with using invalid BPF
helper. CONFIG_MISSING is not supposed to exist and should always be specified
by libbpf as zero, which allows BPF verifier to correctly do branch pruning
and not fail validation, when invalid BPF helper is called from dead if branch.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014710.3449601-5-andriin@fb.com

Add support for generation of mmap()-ed read-only view of libbpf-provided
extern variables. As externs are not supposed to be provided by user code
(that's what .data, .bss, and .rodata is for), don't mmap() it initially. Only
after skeleton load is performed, map .extern contents as read-only memory.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014710.3449601-4-andriin@fb.com

Add support for extern variables, provided to BPF program by libbpf. Currently
the following extern variables are supported:
  - LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION; version of a kernel in which BPF program is
    executing, follows KERNEL_VERSION() macro convention, can be 4- and 8-byte
    long;
  - CONFIG_xxx values; a set of values of actual kernel config. Tristate,
    boolean, strings, and integer values are supported.

Set of possible values is determined by declared type of extern variable.
Supported types of variables are:
- Tristate values. Are represented as `enum libbpf_tristate`. Accepted values
  are **strictly** 'y', 'n', or 'm', which are represented as TRI_YES, TRI_NO,
  or TRI_MODULE, respectively.
- Boolean values. Are represented as bool (_Bool) types. Accepted values are
  'y' and 'n' only, turning into true/false values, respectively.
- Single-character values. Can be used both as a substritute for
  bool/tristate, or as a small-range integer:
  - 'y'/'n'/'m' are represented as is, as characters 'y', 'n', or 'm';
  - integers in a range [-128, 127] or [0, 255] (depending on signedness of
    char in target architecture) are recognized and represented with
    respective values of char type.
- Strings. String values are declared as fixed-length char arrays. String of
  up to that length will be accepted and put in first N bytes of char array,
  with the rest of bytes zeroed out. If config string value is longer than
  space alloted, it will be truncated and warning message emitted. Char array
  is always zero terminated. String literals in config have to be enclosed in
  double quotes, just like C-style string literals.
- Integers. 8-, 16-, 32-, and 64-bit integers are supported, both signed and
  unsigned variants. Libbpf enforces parsed config value to be in the
  supported range of corresponding integer type. Integers values in config can
  be:
  - decimal integers, with optional + and - signs;
  - hexadecimal integers, prefixed with 0x or 0X;
  - octal integers, starting with 0.

Config file itself is searched in /boot/config-$(uname -r) location with
fallback to /proc/config.gz, unless config path is specified explicitly
through bpf_object_open_opts' kernel_config_path option. Both gzipped and
plain text formats are supported. Libbpf adds explicit dependency on zlib
because of this, but this shouldn't be a problem, given libelf already depends
on zlib.

All detected extern variables, are put into a separate .extern internal map.
It, similarly to .rodata map, is marked as read-only from BPF program side, as
well as is frozen on load. This allows BPF verifier to track extern values as
constants and perform enhanced branch prediction and dead code elimination.
This can be relied upon for doing kernel version/feature detection and using
potentially unsupported field relocations or BPF helpers in a CO-RE-based BPF
program, while still having a single version of BPF program running on old and
new kernels. Selftests are validating this explicitly for unexisting BPF
helper.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014710.3449601-3-andriin@fb.com

Instead of duplicating string literals, keep them in one place and consistent.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014710.3449601-2-andriin@fb.com

Andrii Nakryiko says:

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This patch set introduces an alternative and complimentary to existing libbpf
API interface for working with BPF objects, maps, programs, and global data
from userspace side. This approach is relying on code generation. bpftool
produces a struct (a.k.a. skeleton) tailored and specific to provided BPF
object file. It includes hard-coded fields and data structures for every map,
program, link, and global data present.

Altogether this approach significantly reduces amount of userspace boilerplate
code required to open, load, attach, and work with BPF objects. It improves
attach/detach story, by providing pre-allocated space for bpf_links, and
ensuring they are properly detached on shutdown. It allows to do away with by
name/title lookups of maps and programs, because libbpf's skeleton API, in
conjunction with generated code from bpftool, is filling in hard-coded fields
with actual pointers to corresponding struct bpf_map/bpf_program/bpf_link.

Also, thanks to BPF array mmap() support, working with global data (variables)
from userspace is now as natural as it is from BPF side: each variable is just
a struct field inside skeleton struct. Furthermore, this allows to have
a natural way for userspace to pre-initialize global data (including
previously impossible to initialize .rodata) by just assigning values to the
same per-variable fields. Libbpf will carefully take into account this
initialization image, will use it to pre-populate BPF maps at creation time,
and will re-mmap() BPF map's contents at exactly the same userspace memory
address such that it can continue working with all the same pointers without
any interruptions. If kernel doesn't support mmap(), global data will still be
successfully initialized, but after map creation global data structures inside
skeleton will be NULL-ed out. This allows userspace application to gracefully
handle lack of mmap() support, if necessary.

A bunch of selftests are also converted to using skeletons, demonstrating
significant simplification of userspace part of test and reduction in amount
of code necessary.

v3->v4:
- add OPTS_VALID check to btf_dump__emit_type_decl (Alexei);
- expose skeleton as LIBBPF_API functions (Alexei);
- copyright clean up, update internal map init refactor (Alexei);

v2->v3:
- make skeleton part of public API;
- expose btf_dump__emit_type_decl and btf__align_of APIs;
- move LIBBPF_API and DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS into libbpf_common.h for reuse;

v1->v2:
- checkpatch.pl and reverse Christmas tree styling (Jakub);
- sanitize variable names to accomodate in-function static vars;

rfc->v1:
- runqslower moved out into separate patch set waiting for vmlinux.h
  improvements;
- skeleton generation code deals with unknown internal maps more gracefully.
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Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

Add BASH completions for gen sub-command.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014341.3442258-18-andriin@fb.com

Add a simple selftests validating datasection-to-struct layour dumping. Global
variables are constructed in such a way as to cause both natural and
artificial padding (through custom alignment requirement).
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014341.3442258-17-andriin@fb.com

Convert few more selftests to use generated BPF skeletons as a demonstration
on how to use it.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014341.3442258-16-andriin@fb.com